Here are some more useful tennis tips for improving your serving game. If you want to make improvements in your ability to serve, these tips will prove useful.

Tip #1: Serve well enough that you can control the rally.

One of the more popular axioms that has to do with tennis is that you are really only as good as the second serve that you make. If you have a hard and fast first serve, but then you miss a large percentage of them, then you are going to end up serving a lot of second serves during your match. If your second serves or soft or easy to handle, then your opponent is going to most certainly take advantage of them by hitting returns that are attacking.

You may serve in a more effective manner if you discard the typical hard and fast first serve in favor of a slower first serve, even if it means that you will have to five up some of the chance of acing your opponent. When you serve more softly than you normally would, but still serve hard enough that he cannot attack you with his return, you will be in a much better position. Then you will be much more likely to have an easier shot when you attempt your first ground stroke, and if your strokes and your tactics are up to par, then you should be able to control the rally that follows after.

Tip #2: Play one serve tennis to improve your second serve.

If your second serve is currently relatively shaky in nature, or if you are serving a lot of double faults, then this is a serve that you are going to want to practice. If you serve a spin serve or mild twist serve when you serve up the second ball, then you should serve this way when you are practicing. But to make your practice sessions much more realistic, you should agree with a practice partner that you are only going to have one serve as you play. Then play, and pretend with every serve that you have already missed a first serve and now you are serving the second ball.

By limiting yourself to one serve only when you are playing and practicing, you are putting more pressure on yourself during your service. This is going to be a lot like the situation you will face during real play when you have missed a first serve. When you regularly practice one-serve tennis, it will help you get over the fears of missing a second serve during actual tennis play. You will convince yourself that you can get your second serve in, and then you will begin to get a lot more of them during the actual play.

Originally posted 2009-09-14 03:41:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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